Match-winner Hall Back On Top Of MVP Table
Former South African international Andrew Hall leads the overall MVP after another match-winning performance in the Championship (LVCC) this week. Hall scored 58 and then returned figures of 13.1-4-29-5 for Northants against Essex at Wantage road raking in 32 points for the match. He has scored 424 runs and taken 19 wickets across all cricket, 319 and 14 of which have come in the LVCC where he is also ranked first.
Steven Davies is up one to second in the overall MVP and maintains his place at the top of the FPT MVP. Davies, who topped last year's Pro40 MVP and who made his England debut in the international Twenty20 in the West Indies over the winter, notched 22 points in last week's match against Notts when he contributed 82 out of a total of 138. In this week's return fixture he could muster just 21 as Worcestershire lost their unbeaten FPT record but he earned enough points to keep his nose ahead of Essex's Varun Chopra.
James Tredwell is a new entry into the top ten after two recent match-winning performances. He routed Middlesex in last week's FPT match at Southgate with 6-27 - at one stage his figures read 6-4 - whilst this week he bowled Kent to victory against Glamorgan with 11 wickets in the match including career best figures of 8-66 as well as 59 in Kent's first innings. Tredwell is third in the overall MVP and fifth in the LVCC MVP. Across all cricket he has scored 165 runs and taken the most wickets with 24.
Last week's leader, Vikram Solanki is down to fourth after a quiet week. The PCA Chairman had stormed to the top of the MVP rankings with his double century against Yorkshire but this week he failed to reach 40 in three attempts. Solanki has 567 runs and one wicket across all forms.
Another county captain, Glenn Chapple of Lancashire, who has been largely responsible for his team's impressive start to the season, is moving up the rankings. Chapple earned 49 points for scoring 89 and then taking 6-34 from 17 overs against Worcester at New Road. Chapple has 118 runs and 18 wickets, 97 and 12 of which have come in the longer form.
While Gloucestershire's strong start to the season has surprised many, it is no surprise that one of the chief architects of their performances has been the evergreen Jon Lewis. The wily paceman took 4-39 to bowl Leicestershire out this week and has 15 Championship wickets already this season. He is in sixth spot overall and is 11th in the LVCC MVP.
Somerset keeper Craig Kieswetter has had a week off the FPT where he's consequently slipped to 7th but a fifty in the Championship has earned enough points to maintain a top ten spot overall. He occupies 7th in the overall MVP with 487 runs and nine catches.
Eighth and tenth spots are occupied by old friends of the MVP Jacques Rudolph and last year's MVP winner Martin van Jaarsveld. The South Africans were two of the leading run-scorers across all cricket in 2008 and have showed their hunger for the game remains undiminished so far this year. Van Jaarsveld (10th) has three consecutive hundreds in the LVCC, while Rudolph made another 92 runs in the LVCC this week taking his tally for the season for all cricket to 571.
Wedged in between the South Africans is the audacious young Australian Phil Hughes. The left-hander from New South Wales, whom we'll no doubt see far too much of during the Ashes, has had a remarkable string of scores in the LVCC: 118, 65, 139, 195, 57. He is the country's leading run-scorer with 674 runs across all forms.
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